For the whole world to vanish into thin air, or for me not to drink my tea? I say, let the world perish if I can always drink my tea.
For sin is sweet; all abuse it, but all men live in it, only others do it on the sly, and I openly.
For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.
Finally: I'm bored, and I constantly do nothing. And writing things down really seems like work. They say work makes a man good and honest. Well, here's a chance, at least.
Fathers and teachers, I ponder, What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
Evidently it’s true that the entire second half of a man’s life is usually composed solely of the habits accumulated during the first half.
Evidently habit does wonders! God knows what habit can do with anyone.
Everything, even his crime, his sentence and imprisonment, seemed to him now in the first rush of feeling an external, strange fact with which he had no concern. But he could not think for long togeth...
Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one. You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathf...
Even then, if the cliff, chosen and cherished from long ago, had not been so picturesque, if it had been merely a flat, prosaic bank, the suicide might not have taken place at all.
Even at sixteen I wondered at them morosely; even then I was struck by the pettiness of their thoughts, the stupidity of their pursuits, their games, their conversations. They had no understanding of...
Era o noapte minunată, cum numai în tinereţe pot fi nopţile, iubite cititorule. Bolta înstelată era atât de luminoasă, încât, privind-o, te întrebai fără să vrei: cum e cu putinţă oare, ca sub firmame...
En todos los tiempos, el hombre honrado fue un cobarde y un esclavo.
En la pobreza, uno conserva la nobleza de sus sentimientos innatos; en la indigencia, nadie puede conservar nada noble. Con el indigente no se emplea el bastón, sino la escoba, pues así se le humilla...
El caballero auténtico, aunque pierda cuanto tiene, no debe alterarse. El dinero está tan por bajo de la dignidad de un caballero que casi no vale la pena pensar en él.
Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it...
Dragostea abstractă pentru umanitate ascunde aproape întotdeauna o iubire egoistă faţă de tine însuţi.
Dosta je bilo! - izusti odlučno i svečano. - Dalje od mene, utvare, izmišljene strepnje, priviđenja!... Ima još života! Zar nisam sad maloprije živio? Nije mi se još život ugasio s onom babuskarom! Bo...
Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them. And these can rarely be distinctly defined.
Come, try, give any one of us, for instance, a little more independence, untie our hands, widen the spheres of our activity, relax the control and we...yes, I assure you...we should be begging to be u...